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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Thank you, I printed out a copy of the letter and gave it to Ed...
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Thank you for taking the time to share this. It really does provide some valuable insight. Like you said, after 30 years, there is no reason why leaders couldn’t answer to their past actions, whether it’s in defense or to repent. For Ed Marks to admit that he was just “
a monkey”, that he “
didn’t know anything”, and that “
Witness Lee was very happy with the letter” is all I needed to hear. That is neither a defense of nor a repentance for his actions. It’s Ed saying that he doesn’t care, that making WL happy was more important than anything else. His response really says it all about what took place and the attitudes that leaders maintain to this day.
When I re-read the letter yesterday, I couldn’t help but notice the dates – 1993 being when the “unsigned” letter went out and 1996 when the final signed copy was written. If all of the “replacement elders” felt PL’s excommunication wasn’t “justified or proper”, then why did they wait so many years to overturn it? They became elders in 89/90, so it took three years and then another three years to create a final letter. Anyways, it seems unlikely that the letter was anything they initiated, otherwise there would have been no reason to wait so long. As far as I’m concerned there was likely someone pressuring them (WL???), and if nothing else, that letter was written to make WL happy.